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Originally Posted by Jay North
The Bible got it right!It seems that no one is looking at the definitions from the Biblical times. Or alternate Greek and Hebrew translations.
For instance:
The UNICORN was simply their name for a type of wild ox (Bos primigenius). Since extinct. The name may be unfortunate since it was a two horned animal. The mythical creature came into writing later and was probably unrelated.
The COCKATRICE was most likely a type of cobra given that it was in a den and the proximity to, if not one of, the asps(snakes). Isaiah also refers to its viper eggs. The word cockatrice is the same as the Greek Basilisk(snake) which means 'little king" for its mitre on its head. It may also, although unlikely, refer to an extinct bird that had a reptile like tail that we know from fossils looked very much like the mythical version of a cockatrice. Who's to say that it wasn't still around then or they just saw the bones and imagined it was still around. I've also read books from that era that had a cockatrice character that was described as a very mean /evil rooster. Kind of a "fowl" fowl. Lol I get the sense that that was a common term for rooster back then.
DRAGONS were likely how they referred to wild dogs or jackals since most of the times the word is used in english, the Hebrew translation would have been jackal. That's not to say that it isn't possible that they're referring to dinosaur remains or even living remnants of some sort of dinosaur since we consistently find human and dinosaur remains,fossils and tracks together. Also, drawings and carvings of human/dinosaur interactions.
SATYRS? Well your guess is as good as mine. As far as I can tell, they're simply he-goats as the Hebrew translations say or some sort of demon that all translations hint to. But that Neanderthal theory intrigues me. There's no proof or reason they didn't coexist.
So that's my long winded spiel on how they knew exactly what they were doing when they wrote the Scriptures. It's only been man that has gotten it wrong. Mostly because of those that want it to be wrong.
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Is it your contention that the Lord thy God was incapable, or unwilling to say what He meant?